What’s the point of cultivating immortality if you don’t have money?.

Chapter 842 Bu Daojun, I'm about to die (Thanks to "Si Nian V" for the generous donation)
Within the Immortal's Cave.

A silver-white sphere, resembling a skull, floats silently in mid-air.

Looking at the silent Forge before him, Zhang Yu smiled slightly.

"It's finally done."

Looking at the first Void Refinement level corpse he had subdued, Zhang Yu stretched out one hand and suddenly extracted the power of the cave within it.

Faced with Zhang Yu's extraction, the World-Forging Furnace, which had fallen into silence, was naturally powerless to resist. The surging power of the grotto heaven instantly poured into Zhang Yu's body, causing the entire Immortal Grotto Heaven to tremble slightly once again.

With these slight tremors, the Immortal Cave seemed to grow again, and the entire space suddenly expanded, gradually exceeding 11 kilometers in length, width and height.

Feeling the growth of the Immortal Grotto Heaven once again, Zhang Yu nodded in satisfaction: "Subduing this Void Refinement Corpse has indeed absorbed far more power from the Grotto Heaven than subduing 10 Nascent Soul Corpses."

At the same time, Zhang Yu also felt a strange connection between himself and the Forge in front of him. The forge was no longer in a frenzy, but completely obeyed his commands.

"Then... let's start it up."

"ignition."

At that moment, sparks rose from the core of the Forge.

At the same time, all the magical power of the Immortal Cave Heaven was poured into the World-Forging Furnace through various magical power circuits.

Even Zhang Yu himself suddenly struck out with his palm, pouring his own magical power into it.

Although the Forging Furnace, once fully operational, possesses extremely high mana refining efficiency, sufficient to power all the equipment within the Immortal Cave Heaven, with a surplus to spare.

However, starting and igniting at this moment also requires a large amount of mana.

As waves of mana surged forth, wisps of flame gradually erupted from the Forge, like a sun rising above the horizon.

As the Forging Furnace gradually started up, surging magical power flowed back along the magical power circuit to all the equipment and corpses in the Immortal Cave Heaven, just like a real sun illuminating all things in the world.

boom!
The corpse production line roared, and the numerous berserk corpses that had just participated in the battle roared one by one. Under the infusion of surging magic power, their momentum surged, and they all entered full power mode.

Meanwhile, the computing pool, which Zhang Yu was most concerned about, emitted a soft buzzing sound, and its performance gradually increased, jumping from 10% to 20%... 30%...

Ultimately, with the ever-increasing mana output of the Forge, the availability of the Computation Pool reached 100%.

The performance surge of the computing pool had the most direct impact on Zhang Yu, making him feel a sudden ease in his brain and a sharp increase in the speed of his thinking, more than a hundred times faster.

At that moment, the whole world seemed to slow down in front of him.

Clearly, with the blessing of this calculation pool, Zhang Yu's efficiency will increase dramatically in everything he does, whether it's studying, working, or fighting.

Besides Zhang Yu, the most obvious impact was felt by soul cultivators such as Mo Tianyi, Hu Yuntao, and Che Yufei.

Mo Tianyi exclaimed in delight, "A continuous stream of computing power is pouring out!"

Hu Yuntao said excitedly, "With this kind of environment, if I get a certificate in the future, breaking through to the Golden Core realm probably won't be a problem."

The winning group of soul cultivators said, "If we can really break through, it will also solve the problem of several members of our family whose lifespans are about to end."

At the same time, the streams of magical flames gushing from the Forge were also firmly bound within a ten-meter radius around the Forge by the magic array within it, under Zhang Yu's control.

At this moment, the Forge was operating normally, and its magical power was being channeled into various devices. Unlike its previous berserk state, where its magical power had nowhere to go and eventually accumulated into endless Yang energy, it was no longer causing increasing damage to the surrounding area even under the constraints of the magic array.

However, as the Forging Furnace began to operate, Zhang Yu could feel the spiritual energy within the Immortal Cave Heaven suddenly decreasing.

"The speed of refining mana has increased, but the spiritual energy is starting to run out again."

"We need to produce more breathing machines to draw spiritual energy from the outside into the immortal's cave."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Fortunately, with the World Forging Furnace in operation, the two breathing machine production lines I collected can run at full capacity. In addition, with the materials that Teacher Gao picked up, we should be able to manufacture a large number of breathing machines to alleviate the lack of spiritual energy in the cave."

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Yu looked at the many soul cultivators who were currently at their peak.

"Mo Tianyi, Che Yufei, Hu Yuntao, please help me write a report. I need to send it to the chairman of the management committee."

"The specific content is a report about Vice President Xie Lanyin's sudden intervention, which caused the spiritual realm in the development zone to sever..."

Zhang Yu thought to himself, "Compared to having Tianwenxing write various documents, I feel much more at ease having a trusted soul cultivator under my command write them."

Zhang Yu knew that although he had successfully subdued the Void Refining Corpse, the matter was far from over.

After all, the entire labyrinth is still in a state of disconnection from the spirit world.

It is estimated that the entire development zone has been thrown into chaos as a result.

……

On the battlefield of the experimental zone.

Zhang Yu's figure reappeared. He raised a finger, and wisps of Yang energy suddenly rose from his fingertip, bursting out with dazzling light.

This was Zhang Yu releasing a wisp of Yang energy directly from the blazing Forging Furnace, using the power of the manifested cave.

Feeling the astonishing heat contained within this wisp of Yang energy, Zhang Yu smiled with satisfaction and then withdrew the Yang energy back into the Forging Furnace.

Having access to this Yang Qi at the Refining Void level is equivalent to Zhang Yu, who is currently at the Nascent Soul stage, possessing a powerful ability that surpasses his own realm.

The surrounding Nascent Soul cultivators, including Tu Mu, all felt a chill as they watched Zhang Yu emerge from the cave once more, and saw the fleeting glimpse of Shangyang Qi at Zhang Yu's fingertips.

After the series of fierce battles just now, everyone could see that Zhang Yu seemed to be able to control the berserk corpses to participate in the battle.

But unexpectedly, Zhang Yu could even control the World Forging Furnace, which has the power to refine the Void Realm.

"Alas, the inheritance of immortals..." Tu Mu thought to himself, "Indeed, it is the method of immortals, beyond our comprehension."

If Zhang Yu's initial display of strength in withstanding the Forge was already astonishing, then...

So when Zhang Yu blocked Xie Lanyin's attack, everyone felt even more admiration and trust for him.

At this moment, as Zhang Yu once again demonstrated his ability to manipulate the Void Refinement Corpse, his prestige among the many Nascent Soul cultivators skyrocketed.

As Zhang Yu's strength and abilities grow, some people's thoughts are quietly changing.

Previously, when Zhang Yu was fighting on the front lines as a leader, many Nascent Soul cultivators were very puzzled and even thought that Zhang Yu had lost his mind under the influence of the World Forging Furnace.

But now their thoughts have all changed.

"Vice President Zhang is so powerful that he even blocked Vice President Xie Lanyin's attack. How could he possibly be affected by a mere corpse?"

"He must have wanted to do this, but we're too inexperienced to figure it out. He must have some other reason, so we'd better just do as he says."

At the same time, Zhang Yu waved his right hand, and with the power of the manifested grotto-heaven, he led everyone into the Immortal Grotto-heaven and headed towards the Bridge of the Grotto-heaven.

At this moment, the individual bridges within the Immortal's Cave Heaven lead to various parts of the labyrinth, as well as its entrance.

By using the Immortal Cave Heaven as a transit point, Zhang Yu could lead them out of the maze as quickly as possible and arrive at the entrance of the maze.

Once there, Zhang Yu and the others will be able to re-establish their connection to the spirit world.

"After you leave, send out the videos you just recorded: the battle between me and Vice President Xie Lanyin, the video of Vice President Xie Lanyin losing control of her power and causing the spirit world to break apart, and the video of me actively resisting her attack to protect the sect's assets."

Upon hearing Zhang Yu's words, Tu Mu asked, "Boss, what name should we use for this? Should we say something?"

"Promote whatever becomes popular," Zhang Yu said calmly. "I only have one request."

"I want this to become as popular as possible."

So, the group crossed the bridge to the cave and returned to the entrance of the labyrinth, arriving outside the labyrinth.

The Nascent Soul cultivators under Zhang Yu reconnected to the Spirit Realm and began editing and publishing the video there.

This is not unfamiliar to them, after all, in the Kunxu Sect, often it is better to film well, write well, or speak well than to do well.

How to shoot videos for promotion and how to create news hype are not new tricks for these veteran Nascent Soul cultivators; they each have their own methods.

After assigning them their tasks, Zhang Yu contacted Yu Xinghan.

Zhang Yu: "Xinghan, can you contact Manager Lin for me? I have something I'd like to discuss with him in person."

Zhang Yu glanced at the image that appeared before him; it was footage of various high-end devices that Teacher Gao had taken during his repeated visits to the experimental area these past few days.

Many of these high-end devices are of little use to Zhang Yu.

However, Zhang Yu believed that the sect leaders of the Netherworld Palace would definitely be interested in the equipment of the White Bone Sect, and the sect leaders of the White Bone Sect would definitely be curious about the laboratory of the Heavenly Demon Sect.

Zhang Yu didn't ask for much; he just hoped that these companies would say a few fair words in the future.

Seeing this, Fu Ji chuckled and said, "This Xie Lanyin is in charge of investment promotion. Last time she even used companies to pressure us. Little did she know that investment promotion is her strength, but it can also become her weakness and Achilles' heel."

Zhanxian sighed, "Ever since our confrontation with Xie Lanyin at the meeting, we've been trying to figure out how to deal with her, but we never expected her to take action herself. We've managed to play our cards so quickly."

Just as Zhang Yu was busy contacting the heads of various enterprises, Bai Zhenzhen, who had been hiding in the Immortal Cave Heaven, came out.

Looking at Zhang Yu, who was covered in wounds and almost unrecognizable, she couldn't help but feel worried.

Although Bai Zhenzhen had seen Zhang Yu seriously injured time and time again since the first floor, this time was definitely the most serious injury Zhang Yu had ever sustained.

In particular, during her observation, Zhang Yu's life force was almost nonexistent, and his injuries showed no signs of regeneration or self-healing.

Bai Zhenzhen: "Yu Zi, your injury..."

"It's alright, Zhen," Zhang Yu said with a slight smile. "I just wanted... this injury to heal a little faster."

At this moment, Zhang Yu is doing his best to suppress the self-healing power within his body, preventing any injuries from recovering and healing.

"Ah Zhen, I'll return the spiritual root to you first. Bu Ying Shu will probably be here soon..."

Although Zhang Yu didn't continue, Bai Zhenzhen already understood what he meant.

After returning to the Immortal's Grotto and retrieving the spiritual root from Zhang Yu's body, Bai Zhenzhen said, "Then I'll be going now. You... be careful."

Zhang Yu exited the fusion state of his spiritual root, and the previously vigorous self-healing power within his body suddenly decreased significantly. A sense of weakness rose up, causing Zhang Yu to experience a series of discomforts.

He thought to himself, "The combined state of this Feather True Spiritual Root... brings such a huge boost. After the combination, I'm probably able to beat 10 times my pre-combination self."

Zhang Yu watched Bai Zhenzhen's departing figure and thought to himself, "If A-Zhen enters the Fusion state, her strength will probably increase dramatically. Not to mention that she will have almost no rivals at the same level, she can even hold her own against those at the Void Refinement stage. Especially since her security department is fast and resilient, it will be a huge advantage in the competition between sects."

"However, she doesn't have any immortal inheritance, so we need to find a way to give her an excuse..."

A thought flashed through Zhang Yu's mind, but he knew that this was not the most urgent matter at the moment, so he had to put it aside and attend to the matter at hand first.

He arrived outside the Immortal Cave Heaven again and contacted Bu Yingshu directly, sending his projection there.

"Bu... Bu Daojun, I'm about to die."

Not long after Bai Zhenzhen left, a streak of light streaked across the sky, triggering a series of warnings and panic in the spirit world.

Bai Zhenzhen knew that Bu Yingshu, riding the Immortal Shuttle, had rushed to Zhang Yu's place.

……

Deep within the spirit realm, Xie Lanyin's consciousness trembled slightly, realizing that she had lost her connection with the direction of the maze.

"Hmm? Is there a problem with the spirit world's signal?"

At first, Xie Lan thought it was her problem, so she quickly checked her situation and found that she could connect to the spirit world in all other places except the maze.

Xie Lanyin immediately realized that the problem lay with the maze.

"Has the spirit realm of the labyrinth been severed again?"

Xie Lan recalled the situation before she lost contact and thought to herself, "There shouldn't be any problem."

Xie Lan was very confident that with her cultivation level as a Void Refinement cultivator, no one present would be able to withstand that single finger strike.

"The Forge will surely be completely destroyed by my attack."

As a cultivator at the Refining Void Realm, Xie Lanyin was very careful in her actions.

"With that one strike, the main structure of the Forge was completely destroyed. It probably won't be able to be restarted without several major repairs."

"But it will never hurt anyone at the scene."

Thinking about this, Xie Lan felt relieved that nothing had gone wrong.

At the same time, she also sighed in her heart: "In this way, Zhang Yu has failed to subdue the first Void Refinement Corpse, so he can only start from scratch and continue to lead people to subdue the next Void Refinement Corpse."

"Therefore, he will no longer be able to control the Forge after subduing it, and use it to help him subdue other corpses."

"Fortunately, I found out that he could control various berserk corpses to fight, so I seized the opportunity to strike directly and completely disrupted his plans."

"Otherwise, if he could control those Void Refining Corpse Parts, he probably would have been able to complete the mission in 20 days."

Although Xie Lanyin wasn't sure if Zhang Yu could completely control the corpse at the Void Refinement level, it was, after all, backed by the inheritance of immortals, and she couldn't afford to be careless. This was the prudent approach she took as a senior sect official.

However, this sudden disconnection from the spirit world made her feel that everything was too coincidental, and she couldn't help but feel a sense of unease and doubt.

While pondering, Xie Lan observed the various messages emerging in the spirit world and soon saw more and more people discussing the disconnection between the spirit world and the labyrinth.

In particular, the teams that were previously responsible for cleaning up the office area.

In addition, construction teams have been arriving in the past few days to begin rebuilding the cleaned-up office area.

The people from these teams rushed out of the Labyrinth office area, complaining about the disconnection of the spirit world.

After all, in this era, most of the magical artifacts, magical remains, and other equipment in Kunxu have the function of connecting to the spirit world. Only when connected to the spirit world can various soul cultivators and cultivators perform remote operations and use the remote services of various companies.

The disconnection of the spirit world directly resulted in most people in the entire labyrinth office area having to stop working.

Of course, there are also teams and equipment in Kunxu that can work in a state without spirits.

However, the team assigned to the development zone for construction this time was clearly not prepared for this. After all, they had confirmed before coming that the development zone had been covered by the spirit world again and that the spiritual energy was functioning normally. They had made preparations for the spirit world.

However, if it is necessary to temporarily replace various magical artifacts, magical remains, and other equipment, a large number of personnel and resources need to be mobilized, which means it requires immortal coins and time.

The widespread shutdowns led many companies to contact Xie Lanyin, the vice president in charge of investment promotion.

Xie Lan could only offer reassurances one by one, while immediately sending a message to Zhang Yu, copying the president and other vice presidents.

She wanted to question Zhang Yu, who was in charge of the development zone's infrastructure and was also the one who restored the connection to the spirit world, about why he had failed to maintain the spirit world properly.

But shortly after Xie Lanyin sent out her question, she noticed some news about her that had suddenly become popular in the spirit world.

"A Nascent Soul cultivator defying the Void Refinement realm! Is this an isolated case, or is there a problem with our education and training system?"

"Cross-border battle! How a Nascent Soul cultivator repelled a Void Refinement cultivator in a single move!"

Zhang Yu instructed the Nascent Soul cultivators to promote the video content, and everyone displayed their abilities in various ways to reveal information.

While there were some legitimate reports among them, the headlines featuring the "reverse cultivation of emptiness" were clearly more eye-catching and easier to go viral and spread.

After all, in Kunxu, especially among the ten major sects, it is almost impossible for a lower-level cultivator to defeat a higher-level cultivator.

If we limit this difference in realms to the Nascent Soul stage and the Void Refinement stage, then the gap between them is like an insurmountable chasm.

It's safe to say that this kind of thing hasn't been seen in the sect for countless years.

In the minds of many cultivators, this phenomenon arose because ancient immortal techniques were underdeveloped, ancient cultivators did not study enough, and their understanding of the world and immortality was not profound.

There are actually cultivators at the Void Refinement stage who can be defeated? I'd like to see which Void Refinement cultivator is such a useless piece of trash.

Beneath these increasingly sensational headlines was the image of Xie Lan pointing out something, only to have it forcefully blocked by Zhang Yu.

Of course, a simple video cannot express that Xie Lan had already lost internet access at that time, and that Zhang Yu had to sacrifice more than a dozen clones in the Immortal Cave Heaven to exhaust the power of this finger.

So the whole video gives the impression that Zhang Yu shattered the power of Xie Lanyin's finger with a single punch.

While some people believe Zhang Yu is more capable due to this kind of publicity, many more people question Xie Lanyin's strength and performance.

"How is this possible? How did this beast manage to block my finger strike?"

Upon witnessing this scene, Xie Lanyin was first shocked, then enraged: "Absurd! Reversing the cultivation of emptiness? This is blatant slander and defamation!"

In modern Kunlun, strength is not only a reflection of ability, but also related to a cultivator's assets.

Such a major scandal as the Nascent Soul cultivator's reversal of the Nascent Soul stage and the Void Refinement stage would not only affect her prestige on the Management Committee, but would also directly impact the stock price of Xie Lanyin's company.

After all, even a Void Refining cultivator from your company could be defeated by a Nascent Soul cultivator. How could your product quality be up to standard?

Furthermore, Xie Lan's important assets, including the mines formed from her physical form, will also be affected.

After all, you're only at the Void Refinement stage and you can't even defeat a Nascent Soul cultivator. Are the materials you produce reliable?

Upon witnessing these scandals, Sheraton's first thought was to cover them up.

She suddenly mobilized her soul cultivator online army to engage in online attacks, stir up trouble, and shift the topic of conversation. At the same time, she promoted other events to cover up her scandal. She also issued a number of warning letters, threatening some low-level cultivators to stop spreading rumors.

In the blink of an eye, Xie Lanyin's funds were consumed like water flowing away.

But the news of "reversing the Void Refinement" was too eye-catching and too attention-grabbing. Xie Lan found that she couldn't suppress it no matter how hard she tried.

As news of the reversal of the Void Refinement Realm became a hot topic, the remarks of many Nascent Soul cultivators at the scene gradually spread throughout the Spirit Realm, and more cultivators began to pay attention to the inside story of this battle.

On Tu Mu's social media platform, it was posted: "The spirit realm of the Old Graveyard Maze was only recently repaired and is already quite unstable. Vice President Xie Lanyin, for reasons unknown, suddenly intervened, using the spirit realm as a bridge to remotely unleash her primordial spirit power, causing the spirit realm of the maze to sever its connection..."

Riding on the wave of news coverage, similar claims spread widely, immediately alerting Xie Lanyin to the impending crisis.

"So, this beast... is trying to pin the blame for the break in the spirit world on me?"

Xie Lan sneered inwardly and immediately planned to contact various investment companies to put pressure on Zhang Yu together.

But she soon discovered that the responsible persons were either offline, unresponsive, or said they were busy.

At this moment, Xie Lanyin, who had been in the sect for many years, felt an increasingly dangerous signal, as if an incomparably sharp divine blade in the void was slowly falling towards her neck.

Of course, she wouldn't sit idly by and wait for her fate; she immediately contacted the other vice presidents and the president within the management committee.

But at that moment, a red warning suddenly flashed in the spirit realm cave.

The next moment, a figure suddenly tore through the layers of spiritual barriers and landed in front of Xie Lanyin.

"You..." Xie Lanyin stared at Bu Yingshu in front of her, slightly taken aback: "Bu Daojun, what are you going to do?"

Bu Yingshu snorted coldly: "You dare to hurt my people? You still have the nerve to ask me?"

The thought that Zhang Yu, who could have helped him break through his talent, was almost killed filled Bu Yingshu with murderous intent, as if he had raised a popular cat with millions of fans who was almost killed.

Seeing the innate certificates appearing in the spirit world, Xie Lanyin immediately warned, "I did not attack Zhang Yu. And you are Bu Daojun! I am the vice president of the management committee, a level 6 sect affairs officer..."

Bu Yingshu gripped the Innate Murder Certificate and threw a punch at Xie Lanyin.

"Level 6 religious affairs officer, right? All the slots on this certificate are yours."

Is that enough?

Xie Lanyin said calmly, "Bu Yingshu, don't think I'm afraid of you just because you're from the Myriad Laws Immortal Clan. The Myriad Laws Immortal Clan has no say in the White Bone Sect."

Just as the two were about to clash, another thought descended, this time from Xiao Yunhe, the chairman of the management committee and a 7th-level Transcending Tribulation cultivator.

He stepped between the two, sighed, and sent a message to Xie Lanyin: "Why did you attack Zhang Yu? And beat him up like that? He's the vice president of the management committee, no matter what."

Xie Lanyin: "I didn't hit Zhang Yu!"

(End of this chapter)